BLines/Lines doesn't respect vim's settings for whitespaces

[synaptiko]

I'm using following vim's settings:

set tabstop=2
set softtabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2
set noexpandtab

set listchars=tab:  ,trail:·,space:·,nbsp:·

But when I run :BLines or :Lines I can see that tab is expanded into 8 spaces which is pretty awful and it makes orientation among lines very hard for me.

[junegunn]

fzf as being an external command-line program has its own rendering engine where tabstop of vim does not apply. Currently fzf uses tabstop of 8 and has no option to override it. Adding the option (e.g. fzf --tabstop=2) to fzf is not impossible but, tabstop setting of Vim is local to each buffer and since :Lines will output lines from all open buffers that may have heterogeneous tabstop config, it does not suffice. Which means we have to preprocess tab characters while preparing input to fzf, but it can slow down the processing due to the slow performance and synchronous nature of vimscript.

[synaptiko]

Ok, I understand and it's unfortunate, I didn't realize that each buffer has own settings.

Although I think that for most cases it would be enough to have --tabstop option because then you could add it to FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS.

[junegunn]

I'll consider that.

[synaptiko]

Thank you... it seems you've already implemented it 👍

When are you going to release it?

[junegunn]

Just released 0.11.1 and applied the new option to the commands (also --reverse). Thanks for the suggestion :)